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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"central plant"”.
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Development of an integrated building energy simulation with optimal central plant control
… component simulations: zones, fan systems, and central plants, are simulated separately and no feedback occurs. In this work a computational engine was developed to model building thermal processes and have all the elements of the simulation interact. This new program IBLAST will, as a result, …
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Instrumented Response and Multilayer Modeling of Cold-Central Plant Recycled Pavement Section
During the last two decades, environmental awareness and climate change concerns have encouraged and supported the implementation of recycled techniques in the Transportation Infrastructure Industry for rehabilitating and constructing pavements in the United States. Besides that, pavement roads are …
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Performance Analysis and Modeling of Pavements with a Cold Central Plant Recycled Base under Accelerated Loading Testing
Cold Central Plant Recycling (CCPR) has been used by many state highway agencies to save material, money, time, and energy in pavement construction and rehabilitation. The objectives of this thesis were to: (1) perform an instrumented verification analysis, (2) evaluate the response and performance …
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Development of a Model and Optimal Control Strategy for the Cal Poly Central Plant and Thermal Energy Storage System
… develops a calibrated model of the Cal Poly Central Chilled Water Plant with Thermal Energy Storage for use in determining an optimal operating control strategy. The model was developed using a transient systems simulation program (TRNSYS) that includes plant performance and manufacturer data …
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A systems analysis of sweet sorghum harvest for a Piedmont ethanol industry
… produce sweet sorghum juice and deliver it to a central plant at the lowest cost per liter of potential ethanol produced. In addition, an energy analysis was done to determine the net energy gain. System A cut the sorghum stalks and hauled them to a crossroads site where they could be stored up …
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Quantifying the Service Life and Potential Environmental Benefits of Recycled Asphalt Pavements
… of materials and construction machinery to plants and construction site. A python-based program was used to perform matrix-based computations to generate the environmental burdens from the available public LCA Ecoinvent database. A substantive part of the dissertation was dedicated to …
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Signal transduction during defense response and source-sink transition in tomato
Plants have evolved an elaborate system to cope with a variety of biotic and abiotic stresses. Typically, under stress conditions an appropriate defense response is invoked which is accompanied by changes in the metabolic status of the plant. Photosynthesis is downregulated and sucrose is imported …